Posted 2 years ago on Oct. 29, 2012, 5:22 p.m. EST by GirlFriday
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A political group tied to a handful of mostly small-time Arizona Republicans has made a splash in California, by dropping $11 million into the fight over a pair of ballot initiatives in the Golden State.

The Arizona group, called Americans for Responsible Leadership (ARL), is registered as a 501(c)4 “social welfare” organization, which allows it to keep its donors secret. That, along with the $11 million donation it made on October 15 to a California group called the Small Business Action Committee, has attracted attention and criticism from California Democrats and progressive groups.

“Eleven million dollars doesn’t just drop out of the sky — this doesn’t pass the laugh test that suddenly this level of money appears in California from an organization with no track record here, without the knowledge of the donors who put that money into the organization,” Derek Cressman, Common Cause’s regional director, told The Bay Area News Group last week

I KNOW! Like unions members from one state going to another to protest an election that wasn't their own! Or billionaire investors like

"George Soros and Hollywood mogul Jeffrey Katzenberg are backing Democratic candidates through a group called Majority PAC. Another group, Crossroads GPS, was organized by Republican strategist Karl Rove and billionaire brothers David and Charles Koch are backing another big player, Americans for Prosperity."

And yet Democrats have failed to do anything, even the simple things, that could have been done to fix the "dark money" problem. The Democratic Senate wouldn't pass the bill sent to them by the Democratic Congress in 2010 when there was no "Republican interference". Obama reversed his position on Super Pacs and embraced them himself. He hinted at an Executive Order, and then completely dropped the idea. His own website doesn't even have the standard protocols in place to prevent foreign donations from being accepted.

It's easy to conclude that the reason that Dems don't act to prevent this kind of stuff is for the exact same reason that Republicans don't....it affects THEIR FUNDING TOO. It only seems to come up when one party is worried about the other party, and it NEVER comes up close to an election.

Hmmmm........I find it odd that you spend much of your time trying to deflect this issue or the fact that if someone doesn't play your line of but.......but..........but..........we get something like.....hummmmm